The banket of sapience compyled by Sir Thomas Eliot Knight.
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Title
The banket of sapience compyled by Sir Thomas Eliot Knight.
Author
Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546.
Publication
Londoni :: Excudebat Henricus VVykes,
M.D.LXIIII. [1564]
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Subject terms
Ethics -- Early works to 1800.
Conduct of life.
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"The banket of sapience compyled by Sir Thomas Eliot Knight." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A21286.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 19, 2024.
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VAYNEGLORIE.
LEt vs not be desirouse of vaineglo¦ry, one prouokynge the other with mutuall enuie.
The vaineglory of this worlde is a de∣ceiteful swetenes, an vnfruitful labour, a continual feare, a daungerous aduāce∣ment, a beginnyng without prouidence, an ende without repentance.
There is not so much ioy in high cli∣myng vpwarde, as there is sorowe in fallyng harde downewarde, no so much renoume after victory, as after ruine re¦proche of foly.
What shoulde he that is stronge, a∣uaunt of his strength, whom bodily sick∣nesse bringeth to feblenesse?
What should tht riche man auaunt of his riches, whose hope by a thefe or a ty∣ranne is soone disapointed?